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Student demands apology from SIU swim team after controversial photo

An SIU student of Mexican descent is demanding an apology from the university swim team after this photo surfaced Wednesday.

Shanna Arceo, who is of Mexican descent, said she and her roommate were in the women's locker room of the Recreation Center when they came across the photo. Arceo, a senior from Chicago studying psychology, took a picture of the photo and put it on social media, claiming it is racially insensitivity.

Poster boards covered in pictures of the team were put up in the locker room and most of the photos were harmless. But this one caught Arceo and her two roommates' attention after finishing their workout about 11 p.